This 'Best Of' compilation arose for a number of reasons. Mainly to have all the new songs, as played on this tour in one place (otherwise they would be spread over 3 concerts)
Another reason is that because, as the quality is stunning, and the concerts are totally consistent in terms of recording position, levels and mastering its not only possible to gather the new songs in one place, but I also felt it a great opportunity to include the best performances of individual songs and to mix them all seamlessly into something of a 'fantasy concert'.
Humility aside :) it does sound exceptionally good and has been mixed in such a way that you really wouldn't be able to guess it didn't actually happen! So it plays like [what would have been] the perfect concert, i at least in terms of song content!
I should add, this is not something I would normaly do as I try to present, as much as possible, each concert experience as it was experienced. However having had great feedback and support from the Sigur Rós fan community...here it is
Ps. A huge thank you to all the people I met who kindly consented to keep their clapping and cheering noise down to a minimum to allow for a better recording and to PG Morris for the use of his fabulous photos as album art
Jon

Probably one of the best shows Ive heard from Sigur Rós. The played their hearts out and gave this show their very all (similar to the Thursday night) ...although they were all pretty awesome! Jónsi in particular was again truly on form.

This the 3rd night of 3 played in London found Sigur Rós in a similar powerful state as on the previous thursday! Recorded in exactly the same position, same levels, same master as the 7th & 8th.

Thanks to PG Morris for letting me use his photo's for cover art. You can see many more superb photos by clicking his name below the photo above.

Probably one of the best shows Ive heard from
Sigur Rós. The played their hearts out and gave this show their very all
(similar to the Thursday night) ...although they were all pretty awesome! Jónsi
in particular was again truly on form.

This the 3rd night of 3 played in London
found Sigur Rós in a similar powerful state as on the previous thursday!
Recorded in exactly the same position, same levels, same master as the 7th
& 8th.

Thanks to PG Morris for letting me use his
photo's for cover art. You can see many more superb photos by clicking his name
below the photo above.

Probably one of the best shows Ive heard from Sigur Rós. The played their hearts out and gave this show their very all (although they are all pretty awesome!) Jónsi in particular was truly on form. I wasn't sure if my battery hungry recorder would be happy for a whole show in 24bit so it was a bit of a gamble but my goodness it payed off!
A perfect follow up to the previous evening with tracks played here that they didn't play the previous evening! Recorded in exactly the same position, same levels, same Master as the 7th
Thanks to PG Morris for letting me use his photo's for cover art. You can see many more superb photos by clicking his name below the photo above.
Jon x

PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THE BIT DEPTH / SAMPLE RATE OF THIS CONCERT -
a 16 / 44 bounced directly from my masters are available elsewhere on this blog.

Probably one of the best shows Ive heard from Sigur Rós. The played their hearts out and gave this show their very all (although they are all pretty awesome!) Jónsi in particular was truly on form. I wasn't sure if my battery hungry recorder would be happy for a whole show in 24bit so it was a bit of a gamble but my goodness it payed off! A 44/16 and the MP3 are also available.

Thanks to PG Morris for letting me use his photo's for cover art. You can see many more superb photos by clicking his name below the photo above.

Probably one of the best shows Ive heard from Sigur Rós. The played their hearts out and gave this show their very all (although they are all pretty awesome!) Jónsi in particular was truly on form. I wasn't sure if my battery hungry recorder would be happy for a whole show in 24bit so it was a bit of a gamble but my goodness it payed off! This post hosts the 44/16 Flac and the 320/48 MP3's
Thanks to PG Morris for letting me use his photo's for cover art. You can see many more superb photos by clicking his name below the photo above.
Jon xSet list:

PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THE BIT DEPTH / SAMPLE RATE OF THIS CONCERT -
a 16 / 44 version bounced directly from my masters are available elsewhere on this blog.

Probably one of the best shows Ive heard from Sigur Rós. The played their hearts out and gave this show their very all (although they are all pretty awesome!) Jónsi in particular was truly on form. I wasn't sure if my battery hungry recorder would be happy for a whole show in 24bit so it was a bit of a gamble but my goodness it payed off! A 44/16 and the MP3 are available on another post
Thanks to PG Morris for letting me use his photo's for cover art. You can see many more superb photos by clicking his name below the photo above.
Jon x

This was the first time I have seen Sigur Rós live in 7 years, the last being in Manchester 2005. It was extraordinary the differences and yet how much of the continuity and precision of even individual notes have not changed.

Jónsi had a powerful voice tonight, something that really shows in parts of this recording. The band will tighten up slightly no doubt towards the end of the tour but all things considered they have achieved something which has to be experienced as it can't be put into words! The video / stage set which was completely different for each song, again has to be seen, no, experienced to be believed

The recording came out well, no clipping! (always a worry) but did take some work to bring a good balance. The building itself struggled with some of the higher frequencies. Fortunately my mics tend to ignore such things and also seem to cut through a lot of the colour.

All in all Im very happy with the end result. Hope you enjoy the recording and it brings back good memories.Edit: after having listened to the show twice I'm giving it a *top ten concert* status. I hope Im not just being bias but after some careful listening I can't fault the quality of the balance of the highs, mids and lows :)

Blank Mass:
Because he was the support act there some relatively quiet talking in the background but a very nice recording. Unfortunately I had some equipment issues so there is a soft fade out / fade in half way through the set. I don't know the songs well enough to name but link to the relevant sites to find out more!

Thank You!

Welcome to Victory Rose Loss-Less

You have reached the sister site of the [now deleted] Victory Rose Music. The purpose of this site is to offer the entire backlog of live Sigur Rós material, featuring Re Mastered FLAC / 320kbps MP3 / & Video ConcertsI'm currently working through the concerts starting from 1998 and moving towards 2008... and onwards. As this project is on going there may be revisions & changes from time to time

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